Maxwell Street blues
(2011, original release: 1981)
Nonfiction
DVD
Call Numbers:
DVD/381.19/MAXWELL
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Facets Multimedia, [2011]
DESCRIPTION
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
736899136321 DV101474
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Title from web page
Captures the tail end of the last great era of blues on Maxwell Street. Chicago's legendary Maxwell Street was home to an open-air market that thrived for decades. It was there that the Chicago blues was born as African American street musicians, who had fled the rural South for the city, played regularly on the dirty corners, empty lots, and broken sidewalks. Together, they hammered out a hard-driving, electrified sound that influenced the world
Originally released in 1981
Director, Raul Zaritsky
DVD
English audio